Search form

Main menu

You are here

Dr. Christina Romer, Chung-Watson & Centennial Speaker

Dr. Christina Romer, Chung-Watson & Centennial Speaker

Monetary Policy in the Post-Crisis World: Lessons Learned and Possible Strategies for the Future

Christina Romer is the Class of 1957-Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also co-director of the Program in Monetary Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research. From January 2009 until September 2010, Dr. Romer served as Chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. She is a specialist in economic history and macroeconomics, and is best known for her work on the causes of and the recovery from the Great Depression, and on the impact of monetary and fiscal policy.